Spaces of Inquiry Making Science and Technology in the Modern World
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2026
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This book traces the historical development of key sites of knowledge creation in science and technology and the robust traditions of scholarship around their origins, exploring commonalities, divergences, and transnational features of knowledge-making cultures from the 18th century to the present.The "space of inquiry" is a meeting of knowledge, labor, and public policy that explodes beyond the confines of lab, campus, and corporation. It is a distinct site connected, formally or informally, to pursuing, teaching, or sharing knowledge - practices that have taken many different shapes across time and around the globe. The space of inquiry ranges from microchips in one scientist's computer to the factory that builds and sells those microchips around the world. In the Internet age, the spatial aspect of inquiry approaches immateriality, yet knowledge is still produced by people, in communities, in specific places. Through vivid case studies of place-making from East Asia to Europe to North America, this volume documents the historical processes of modernization via scientific and technological intensification in new spaces for knowledge production.Scholars of science, technology, and institutional practices will find this book essential, and its open-access chapters are accessible for use in a variety of undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 566.…
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- Spaces of Inquiry Making Science and Technology in the Modern World
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- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2026
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- Neu
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- Gebundene Ausgabe
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- English
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- 1041009364
- ISBN 13
- 9781041009368
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- 566 grams
This book traces the historical development of key sites of knowledge creation in science and technology and the robust traditions of scholarship around their origins, exploring commonalities, divergences, and transnational features of knowledge-making cultures from the 18th century to the present.
The “space of inquiry” is a meeting of knowledge, labor, and public policy that explodes beyond the confines of lab, campus, and corporation. It is a distinct site connected, formally or informally, to pursuing, teaching, or sharing knowledge – practices that have taken many different shapes across time and around the globe. The space of inquiry ranges from microchips in one scientist’s computer to the factory that builds and sells those microchips around the world. In the Internet age, the spatial aspect of inquiry approaches immateriality, yet knowledge is still produced by people, in communities, in specific places. Through vivid case studies of place-making from East Asia to Europe to North America, this volume documents the historical processes of modernization via scientific and technological intensification in new spaces for knowledge production.
Scholars of science, technology, and institutional practices will find this book essential, and its open-access chapters are accessible for use in a variety of undergraduate and graduate classrooms.
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About the Author
Amy Sue Bix, Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, won the History of Science Society’s Margaret Rossiter Prize for her 2013 book ‘Girls Coming to Tech!’: A History of American Engineering Education for Women. Her current research examines advocacy for girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).
Penelope K. Hardy is an historian of ocean science and technology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her 2021 article “Finding the History of the World at the Bottom of the Ocean” received the Charles Dana Gibson Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
Bruce J. Hunt is a historian of science and technology at the University of Texas. His book Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire appeared in 2021 and he is now at work on a biography of James Clerk Maxwell.
Scott Gabriel Knowles is Research Faculty in History and Senior Research Director for the Defense Industrial Base Institute at Northeastern University. His work focuses on the history of disasters worldwide. He published “Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula” in 2020.
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